Lots of performers play Bach on the modern piano. No one does it better than Murray Perahia, whose command of sonorities, dynamics and phrasing makes you hear the piano as an ideal Baroque instrument.

Bach wrote six keyboard partitas over five years in the late 1720s — suites of French dances, but far from the ballroom. Pianist Vladimir Feltman plays the Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor at the Great ...

Bach Partita No. 2 Audio will be available later today. Fred Child talks with pianist Richard Goode about Bach's Keyboard Partita No. 2.

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In his new novel, “Gould’s Book of Fish,” Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan memorably labels Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” as “that vile anthem of contemporary retailing.” Is Bach’s Partita in D Minor ...

It is extraordinary that of over a thousand pieces written by J S Bach only about a dozen were published in his lifetime. The pieces he chose as his opus 1 – although published in 1731 when he was in ...